Kian Tajbakhsh: Notes from Two Worlds
Kian TajbakhshWriting on freedom, democracy, and power; geopolitics, Iran, and the Middle East; cities; and the life of ideas.
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The Work That Got Me Finally Arrested (Tales from Evin Prison, # 5)
The Projects, Warnings, and Political Climate That Put Me on the Intelligence Ministry’s Radar [15–18 minute read]
After a short August break, I’m returning to the story of the events that led to my first imprisonment in Evin Prison in 200...
How I Entered the File (Tales from Evin Prison, # 4)
My first arrest in Tehran—and the security apparatus that had to rescue me from itself
During one of my first interrogations in Evin Prison in 2007, the interrogator asked me a question whose significance I did not immediately grasp.
Can Only the People Bring Democracy? (Iran Crisis Notebook #25)
The False Contrast
During a recent appearance on BBC Persian’s “60 Minutes” program (here, and here), the moderator read aloud from a post I had written—originally in Persian—about the possible paths of political transformation in Ira...
Ahmadinejad, Bollinger, and Me (Tales from Evin Prison, No. 3)
When Lee Bollinger spoke my name—and kept his word for nearly nine years
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is back in the news this week amid extraordinary reports that Mossad spent years trying to cultivate him for a possible role in a post–Islamic Rep...
What I said this week on TV and Radio (Iran Crisis Notebook #24)
Over the past week I appeared on NPR, NewsNation, Radio Farda, and The World to discuss the latest phase of the Iran war and the confrontation over the Strait of Hormuz.
Rather than simply recounting events, I tried to answer a different s...
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Writer, analyst, and scholar of Iran, geopolitics, democracy, and world order. Author of Creating Local Democracy in Iran (Cambridge 2022). Essays in The Atlantic, WSJ and elsewhere.
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